A collection of sixteen titles by Kathleen Raine, poet, crit...

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A collection of sixteen titles by Kathleen Raine, poet, critic and William Blake scholar, many of which signed/signed & inscribed by her, including 'Stone and Flower poems 1935-43', London, Editions PL/Nicholson & Watson, 1945 reprint, signed to title page, colour frontis + 3 plates by Barbara Hepworth as called for, original cloth gilt, dust wrapper (worn with part losses), 'A Question of Poetry', Richard Gilbertson, April 1969, limited edition (250), this numbered 32 and one of 100 copies signed by the author to limitation page, further signed & inscribed to John Yeoman verso of FFEP, orig. printed wraps, 'The Lost Country', L, Dolmen Press, 1971, 1st edition, signed & inscribed to John Yeoman on title page, original cloth, dust wrapper, 'The Oval Portrait', L, Enitharmon Press, 1977, signed & inscribed to John Yeoman on half title, orig. cloth, d/w, 'The Hollow Hill', L, Hamish Hamilton, 1965, 1st edition, signed to title page, orig. cloth, d/w, 'On a Deserted Shore', L, Dolmen Press, signed & inscribed to John Yeoman on title page, orig. cloth, d/w, 'The Collected Poems of Kathleen Raine', L, Hamish Hamilton, 1963 reprint, signed & inscribed to John Yeoman, orig. cloth, d/w, 'The Lion's Mouth', L, H.H., 1977, 1st edition, signed to FFEP, orig. cloth, d/w, 'Collected Poems 1935-1980', L, George Allen & Unwin, 1981, 1st edition, signed & inscribed to John Yeoman on title page, orig. cloth, d/w, 'Farewell Happy Fields', L, H.H., 1974, 2nd impression, signed & inscribed to John Yeoman on FFEP, orig. cloth, d/w, 'From Blake to A Vision', Dolmen Press, 1979, 1st edition, signed to half title, orig. pictorial wraps, 'The Inner Journey of the Poet', L, 1982, 1st edition, signed & inscribed to John Yeoman on FFEP, orig. cloth, d/w, 'Blake and the New Age', L, 1979, 1st edition, signed to half title, orig. cloth, d/w, plus 3 others Kathleen Raine, plus Robert Blair: 'The Grave A Poem', Methuen, 1903, new edition, one of 100 copies only, port frontis + 12 etchings by Louis Schiavonetti after William Blake, plus a duplicate of the etched title loosely inserted, orig. quarter cloth, printed paper label to spine. From the estate of John Richard Harding Yeoman (1916-1988), Copy Writer and Director for several Advertising Agencies, Assistant Secretary (Publicity) for the Council for the Protection of Rural England, Borough Councillor for Kensington and Chelsea, Governor of the Chelsea School of Art, and lover of art, poetry and books. John Yeoman’s first wife was Antonia Yeoman, née Beryl Antonia Thompson (1907-1970), the Australian-English commercial artist, cartoonist and illustrator who worked under the name “Anton” (17)